‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ to Be Made Into A Film+P-Square appoints new Road show managers+Fire guts NFVC Plateau office

‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ to Be Made Into A Film

Chimamanda Adichie’s novel, Half of a Yellow Sun is soon to be introduced to audiences on the big screen. Speaking at a recent book signing in Australia, Chimamanda noted that she would not be involved in any aspect of the movie production. She did note that she expects that the storyline will remain true to the book as the production team that produced ‘The Last King of Scotland’ will be producing this film.

Chimamanda’s achievements and accolades continue to grow and this year has been a particularly rewarding one. Chinua Achebe has noted that she is truly gifted; she won the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction for Half of a Yellow Sun in 2007; the novel received accolades from the literary world including mentions in CNN and the Washington Post.

She won a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, popularly known as a “genius grant”, which came with an obligation-free annual grant of $100,000 for a five-year period; and somehow found time to author a new book, ‘The Thing Around Your Neck‘ (a collection of stories).

P-SQUARE NAMES NEW MANAGMENT COMPANY

3. P-Square

BIDDING to remain one of the most popular Hip Hop group in the country and the whole of Africa and the world, P-Square, the sensational hip-hop group in Nigeria has appointed a new management outfit to handle their road shows. WACK Entertainment is now the new managers that will be involved in the road management of the group under the supervision of the group's music, label, Northside Entertainment. The consolidation strategy is coming just as the countdown to P-Square's much awaited releasing of their latest album entitled Danger. WACK Entertainment could not hide their joy in being the chosen outfit as they announced on their Facebook page that they were very honoured to be so chosen. “We just finished our first road project with them which was a concert in Kigali, Rwanda where our very own Peter and Paul blew their fans of about 35,000 away as they stood at the Amohoru Stadium in Kigali,” an official of WACK told Trend'tainment. WACK Entertainment which has under their management artistes like, Bracket, DJ Zeez, Frank Nerto, Morachi amongst others also revealed they were in the verge of signing J-Martins.

Fire guts NFVC Plateau office

A mysterious fire, Monday, gutted a section of the headquarters of the Nigerian Film Corporation in the Plateau State capital destroying vital documents. The fire started around 4.30 pm shortly after workers closed for the day, but the cause remains a mystery because neither the public electricity nor the generating set were on at the time of the incident, according to some members of staff of the corporation. The fire, coming on the heels of the recent searchlight of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on the corporation over an alleged N12 million scam, is setting tongues wagging among members of staff and the public. Top members of the management of the establishment were recently questioned by operatives of the anti-graft agency over an alleged diversion of funds meant for the relocation of the corporation to Abuja which was later shelved. A similar mysterious fire also gutted the administrative department of the establishment some years ago following investigations into some of the activities. hmnnn...na wa in naija o! na only when EFCC don ready to investigate our leaders that fire suddenly from nowhere razes down the building....i hope our bank chiefs will also not suddenly raze down their bank offices or even the CBN...ok that was a silly joke right? Ok, thats is for today.... See you peeps later!